life tip for the white 

if like me you are white, you will find that you must pay attention to what people who aren't white say, or you'll never know what's going on

if you are not Black, you will not know what's going on unless you listen to Black people

your white friends will never be racist *to you*

this is a thing people have been saying for a long time, that whiteness can make difficult to understand

whole chunks of reality are invisible to us

so we have to pay attention

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life tip for the white 

@ox as an NBPoC, I had been blind to the BIPOC struggle up until recently. Being a PoC isn't a magical thing that makes us immune to being racist, we absolutely need to pay attention.

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